Crab and pasta are a match made in culinary heaven. There's the sea-salty sweetness of picked crab meat dotted through just-cooked pasta, with some binding agents to pull it together – a garlicky tomato sauce does wonders, as does a bianco-style sauce with lemon, chopped parsley and a touch of starchy pasta water. To make crab pasta like the Ligurians do, we turn to the dearly-missed restaurant Lucio's most popular dish, the tagliolini alla granseola.
10 elegant crab pasta recipes
These recipes combine the sea-salty sweetness of crab with al dente pasta.
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Busiate with crab, ginger and pangrattato
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Lucio Galletto's tagliolini alla granseola
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Spaghettini with Hawkesbury mud crab, garlic, chilli, lemon and parsley
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Spaghetti with crab and tomato
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Bigoli with crab, tomatoes and anchovy
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Crab, mint and lemon spelt pasta
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Spaghettini with crab, chilli and rocket
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Zucchini flower, dill and crab linguine
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Spaghetti and spanner crab meat
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